Zeng Daozhong was born in 1938 in Xingning, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1961. He is currently director of China Artists Association. He has successively been a teacher of the Art Department of Qinghai Normal University, an editor of Qinghai Provincial Literary Federation, and vice-chairman and secretary-general of Qinghai Branch of China Artists Association. Because of his outstanding creative achievements, he has been included in the Yearbook of Chinese Fine Arts and the Dictionary of Chinese Artists. His representative works include The Premier of the People, Spring in the West Sea, The Great Plan of the Ancient Gorge of Longyang, The Late Autumn of Qilian, The Shearing Picture, The Flowing Clouds of Alpine Mountains, and The Peak of Spring Mountains. He has published Zeng Daozong